Download PhoneRescue to help you get back disappeared text messages from iPhone or iPhone backup, compatible with iOS 10/9/8/7/6/5.

Question: "I found some text messages disappearing from my iPhone 6 after update to iOS 10, and also lost some attachments pictures. I have tried some fixes, such as hard restart my iPhone, reset network setting and iMessages on/off, but still cannot get back the missing messages and attached pictures, which is something important from my girlfriend, so how can I retrieve them back, is there some methods to fix this message problem?"

Some of your iPhone SMS, iMessages and messages attachments (including pictures and videos) may accidentally disappear from your iPhone due to some reasons, such as updating to new iOS, restoring your iPhone and sync with iTunes. Sometimes, you can easily get back these missing messages on your iPhone by simply resetting or restarting. However, most of users who encountered in this trouble couldn’t. So what if we drop into this messages problem?

How to Get Back Disappeared Messages from iPhone

Part 1. If You Have iPhone Backup

If you make sure that your missing messages and attachments are backed up to iCloud or iTunes, restoring your iPhone is the best choice to retrieve deleted messages. However, in this method, you may erase other data on iPhone, because the backup will replace almost all of the data on your iPhone. Therefore, it would be better if you could preview messages on backup and get back only the disappeared messages instead of all of the data on iCloud or iTunes.

Luckily, there are some iPhone backup extractor tools, such as AnyTrans, which you can use to view and extract text messages and attachments on iPhone backup. You can follow the steps below to use AnyTrans free trial to view messages on iPhone backup.

Step 2. Install and run AnyTrans > Click Backups icon > Preview all backups and select any backup to view the contents in it.

Acess iPhone Backup with AnyTrans

Step 3. Click "Message" to view messages that you backed up to iTunes, you may find your disappeared messages here.

View Messages on iPhone Backup with AnyTrans

You can extract messages history to your computer by clicking "To computer " button at top-right corner, and save them to printable format, including TXT, HTML or PDF.

Part 2. If You Have No Available Backup

You may have no iPhone backup. So the method in the part 1 doesn’t work. Don’t worry! You still have chance to get back some of your disappeared messages. By using iOS data recovery tool - PhoneRescue, you can scan whether there are some disappeared messages on iPhone, and if you find some missing items, you can extract them to computer. Read detail about how to retrieve messages from iPhone without backup.

Retrieve Disappeared Messages on iPhone without Backup

Note: iOS 10 is getting closer and is expected to come out next month. After install iOS 10 on your iPhone or iPad, you may possibly find that iMessage not working well, don’t forget to check out the most common iOS 10 issues you may meet and get solutions.

The Bottom Line

Messages disappearing on iPhone 6/6s/SE or 5/5s/4/4s would be a disaster if the messages contain some important and valuable information, such as password and treasure family videos. If you have some good solutions to get back missing data on iPhone, please share it on the comment section below. Of course, problems are also welcomed here.